{"id":976,"date":"2005-07-11T14:25:34","date_gmt":"2005-07-11T22:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/07\/11\/masculinity-defined\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:24:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:24:24","slug":"masculinity-defined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/07\/11\/masculinity-defined\/","title":{"rendered":"Masculinity Defined?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Steve sent this article.  What a hoot, and so true.  I clipped a couple of bits that made me chuckle most, but the whole column is a fun read.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When you walk into Costco you immediately wish you had a family with eight or nine kids. I see all the bargains and, even though I&#8217;m a guy, start ovulating. I want more people at home to justify the purchase of all these enormous, cheap, bulk products.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Unfortunately, I don&#8217;t know much about home improvement, and whenever I go to Home Depot I end up buying something small and pathetic, like a half-inch rubber washer. Walking out of that place with my little paper sack, I feel like I&#8217;m a quart low on testosterone. But let me loose at Costco, and it&#8217;s a different story. I love the moment in the parking lot when some Hot Mama sees my cart and says, &#8220;Wow, that&#8217;s a really big pork loin,&#8221; and I cock my head and look to the horizon and say, &#8220;Yeah, it&#8217;s huge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Joel Achenbach, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/07\/05\/AR2005070501209.html\">Adventures at Chez Costco<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Steve sent this article. What a hoot, and so true. I clipped a couple of bits that made me chuckle most, but the whole column is a fun read. When you walk into Costco you immediately wish you had a family with eight or nine kids. I see all the bargains and, even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,30,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-quotes","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12025,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions\/12025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}